Lifestyles show a worrying divide

IN spite of all the calls of poverty in this country many people find it necessary to pay twice the shop price for already grossly inflated valued new trainers, obtain certain concert tickets at any price and often incur additional high expenses to get there for a two-hour performance, and change their mobile appliances every time a new feature is included.

These people must be overpaid or grossly in debt in many cases. The sad thing is that this ‘must-have’ lifestyle is completely unnecessary. BRIAN TAYLOR, North Shields